Adams Girls Basketball Team - addendum 2009
southeastern Minnesota, south of Rochester; 20 miles southeast of Austin on #56
Years Represented: 1927-1932
Adams is featured on pp 103-104 in the book, Daughters of the Game.
Leone Halvorson Krug provided the following information in 2009:
"Mr. Stockton was principal and also the coach. If he yelled at you, you knew he'd yelled! He'd say, 'Halverson, get your long arms out of there!' because so often I would get into foul trouble.
We played 6-8 games a year with Grand Meadow, Elkton, LeRoy, Lyle. We'd go the same time as the boys' team did and we'd travel by bus.
We practiced after school almost every night. We took turns with the boys. The boys, of course, got the first privilege.
I always played guard. I played 2 or 3 years. There was only 1 girls' team; no B team.
Our uniforms were purple and gold, wool and short. Very nice uniforms which the school bought.
I don't remember playing tournaments. Maybe we didn't qualify.
Sometimes we walked home from practice. We'd cut across the field to get home and one time we got lost in the fog. We followed the fence line 'til we got close to home. Our shoes were really a mess. Luckily Mom and Dad had company that night so we could sneak inside and get the shoes cleaned up before they discovered it.
My friend, Inez (Uglum), was captain of our team and played forward. My sisters, Myrtle and Lillie, also played on Adams's teams. Myrtle played around 1910 or 1915, and her team wore bloomers and middy blouses.
My mother didn't want me to play basketball because 'it wasn't very feminine.' To help decide the matter, they asked the minister's opinion. Rev. Brevik said, 'Oh, no, Leone shouldn't play basketball because she may not be able to have children later.'"
But Leone was determined and told her mother that she'd 'cross that bridge when she came to it.'
Leone Halvorson Krug provided the following information in 2009:
"Mr. Stockton was principal and also the coach. If he yelled at you, you knew he'd yelled! He'd say, 'Halverson, get your long arms out of there!' because so often I would get into foul trouble.
We played 6-8 games a year with Grand Meadow, Elkton, LeRoy, Lyle. We'd go the same time as the boys' team did and we'd travel by bus.
We practiced after school almost every night. We took turns with the boys. The boys, of course, got the first privilege.
I always played guard. I played 2 or 3 years. There was only 1 girls' team; no B team.
Our uniforms were purple and gold, wool and short. Very nice uniforms which the school bought.
I don't remember playing tournaments. Maybe we didn't qualify.
Sometimes we walked home from practice. We'd cut across the field to get home and one time we got lost in the fog. We followed the fence line 'til we got close to home. Our shoes were really a mess. Luckily Mom and Dad had company that night so we could sneak inside and get the shoes cleaned up before they discovered it.
My friend, Inez (Uglum), was captain of our team and played forward. My sisters, Myrtle and Lillie, also played on Adams's teams. Myrtle played around 1910 or 1915, and her team wore bloomers and middy blouses.
My mother didn't want me to play basketball because 'it wasn't very feminine.' To help decide the matter, they asked the minister's opinion. Rev. Brevik said, 'Oh, no, Leone shouldn't play basketball because she may not be able to have children later.'"
But Leone was determined and told her mother that she'd 'cross that bridge when she came to it.'